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On the Postcolony by Achille Mbembe
RRP: £26.00Booksplease Price: £19.90Achille Mbembe is one of the most brilliant theorists of post colonial studies writing today. In "On the Postcolony" he profoundly renews our understanding of power and subjectivity in Africa. In a... -
Necropolitics by Achille Mbembe
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.57In Necropolitics Achille Mbembe, a leader in the new wave of francophone critical theory, theorizes the genealogy of the contemporary world, a world plagued by ever-increasing inequality,... -
Brutalism by Achille Mbembe 9781478020875
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £65.19In Brutalism, eminent social and critical theorist Achille Mbembe invokes the architectural aesthetic of brutalism to describe our moment, caught up in the pathos of demolition and production on a... -
Necropolitics by Achille Mbembe 9781478005858
RRP: £82.00Booksplease Price: £66.76In Necropolitics Achille Mbembe, a leader in the new wave of francophone critical theory, theorizes the genealogy of the contemporary world, a world plagued by ever-increasing inequality,... -
Brutalism by Achille Mbembe 9781478025580
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.46In Brutalism, eminent social and critical theorist Achille Mbembe invokes the architectural aesthetic of brutalism to describe our moment, caught up in the pathos of demolition and production on a... -
Critique of Black Reason by Achille Mbembe
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.24In Critique of Black Reason eminent critic Achille Mbembe offers a capacious genealogy of the category of Blackness-from the Atlantic slave trade to the present-to critically reevaluate history,... -
Achille Mbembe Oliver Coates 9780367193003
Booksplease Price: £20.99Achille Mbembe is a key thinker in contemporary African philosophy, who has been influential in literary and cultural theory, African literature, and postcolonial studies. Oliver Coates introduces... -
Critique of Black Reason by Achille Mbembe 9780822363323
RRP: £82.00Booksplease Price: £66.46In Critique of Black Reason eminent critic Achille Mbembe offers a capacious genealogy of the category of Blackness-from the Atlantic slave trade to the present-to critically reevaluate history,... -
Achille Mbembe Oliver Coates 9780367192693
Booksplease Price: £110.39Achille Mbembe is a key thinker in contemporary African philosophy, who has been influential in literary and cultural theory, African literature, and postcolonial studies. Oliver Coates introduces... -
Beyond the Postcolony: On Achille Mbembe’s Planetary Justice and Ethics by Korassi Téwéché 9783837681635
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £39.21The worlds we inhabit are in profound crisis. What is at stake is not merely historical but deeply existential. The inherited frameworks of Western and postcolonial thought have said their final word... -
Out of the Dark Night: Essays on Decolonization by Achille Mbembe
Booksplease Price: £27.52Achille Mbembe is one of the world's most profound critics of colonialism and its consequences, a major figure in the emergence of a new wave of French critical theory. His writings examine the... -
Manoeuvring in an Environment of Uncertainty: Structural Change and Social Action in Sub-Saharan Africa by Boel Berner 9781138740464
Booksplease Price: £26.39This title was first published in 2000. Recent years have seen tremendous economic and political changes in Sub-Saharan Africa. The contributors to this volume focus on the pressing problem of how... -
Kafka's Monkey and Other Phantoms of Africa by Seloua Luste Boulbina
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.74Even though many of France's former colonies became independent over fifty years ago, the concept of "colony" and who was affected by colonialism remain problematic in French culture today. Seloua... -
Senghor's Eucharist: Negritude and African Political Theology by David Tonghou Ngong 9781481317795
Booksplease Price: £59.82In his collection of poems Black Hosts, Leopold Senghor, a leading figure in the Negritude movement and the first president of Senegal, offers the suffering and death of Africans, rather than that... -
Authoritarianism, Resistance, and the Future of Democratic Education in South Africa: The University Betrayed Yusef Waghid 9781041163022
Booksplease Price: £60.08Through a fusion of autoethnography and critical theory, this bold, cutting-edge volume examines how South African universities, instead of fulfilling their post-apartheid promise of democratic... -
The Colonizer and the Colonized by Albert Memmi
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.64Written in 1957, when North African independence movements were gaining momentum, The Colonizer and the Colonized studies the enduring legacy, political as much as psychological, of colonisation... -
An Archive of Possibilities: Healing and Repair in Democratic Republic of Congo by Rachel Marie Niehuus 9781478021018
RRP: £82.00Booksplease Price: £66.76In An Archive of Possibilities, anthropologist and surgeon Rachel Marie Niehuus explores possibilities of healing and repair in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo against a backdrop of 250... -
Being Vulnerable: Contemporary Political Thought by Arne De Boever
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £76.70We are living in a time of acute vulnerability. From climate change to drone warfare, terrorist attacks to mass shootings, safe spaces to trigger warnings, not to mention the COVID-19 pandemic, homo... -
An Archive of Possibilities: Healing and Repair in Democratic Republic of Congo by Rachel Marie Niehuus 9781478025757
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.46In An Archive of Possibilities, anthropologist and surgeon Rachel Marie Niehuus explores possibilities of healing and repair in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo against a backdrop of 250... -
Being Vulnerable: Contemporary Political Thought by Arne de Boever 9780228016281
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36We are living in a time of acute vulnerability. From climate change to drone warfare, terrorist attacks to mass shootings, safe spaces to trigger warnings, not to mention the COVID-19 pandemic, homo... -
Afrotopia by Felwine Sarr 9781517906917
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68A vibrant meditation and poetic call for an African utopian philosophy of self-reinvention for the twenty-first century In the recent aftermath of colonialism, civil wars, and the AIDS crisis, a new... -
Afrofuturisms: Ecology, Humanity, and Francophone Cultural Expressions by Isaac Vincent Joslin
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £24.26An exploration of Francophone African literary imaginations and expressions through the lens of Afrofuturism Generally attributed to the Western imagination, science fiction is a literary genre... -
Afrofuturisms: Ecology, Humanity, and Francophone Cultural Expressions by Isaac Vincent Joslin 9780896803299
RRP: £64.00Booksplease Price: £54.29An exploration of Francophone African literary imaginations and expressions through the lens of Afrofuturism Generally attributed to the Western imagination, science fiction is a literary genre... -
Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World by Zakiyyah Iman Jackson
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Winner, 2021 Gloria E. Anzaldua Book Prize, given by the National Women's Studies Association Winner, 2021 Harry Levin Prize, given by the American Comparative Literature Association Winner, 2021... -
Drone Enlightenment: The Colonial Roots of Remote Warfare by Peter DeGabriele 9780813949543
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.02Drone warfare raises far-reaching questions about responsibility, war, and sovereignty. Who can be held accountable for drone strikes? Do drones conduct wars of national territories and sovereign... -
Atlantic Theory: On the Vicissitudes of Relation John E. Drabinski 9781399549271
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £78.68This largely new collection of essays explores how the history of empire has impacted the intellectual life of the Atlantic world through treatments of key figures in Atlantic theory, including... -
Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World by Zakiyyah Iman Jackson 9781479890040
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £60.73Winner, 2021 Gloria E. Anzaldua Book Prize, given by the National Women's Studies Association Winner, 2021 Harry Levin Prize, given by the American Comparative Literature Association Winner, 2021... -
Social Media and Politics in Africa: Democracy, Censorship and Security by Maggie Dwyer
Booksplease Price: £28.85The smartphone and social media have transformed Africa, allowing people across the continent to share ideas, organise, and participate in politics like never before. While both activists and... -
Rescuing the Enlightenment from the Europeans: Critical Theories of Decolonization Nikita Dhawan 9781478032939
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24In Rescuing the Enlightenment from the Europeans, Nikita Dhawan puts the critical project of decolonization into conversation with the Enlightenment. She explores the ethical-political challenges... -
Rescuing the Enlightenment from the Europeans: Critical Theories of Decolonization Nikita Dhawan 9781478029458
RRP: £84.00Booksplease Price: £68.32In Rescuing the Enlightenment from the Europeans, Nikita Dhawan puts the critical project of decolonization into conversation with the Enlightenment. She explores the ethical-political challenges... -
Pandemic and Crisis of Democracy: Biopolitics, Neoliberalism, and Necropolitics in Bolsonaro's Brazil by Andre Duarte
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £38.83In this incisive book, Andre Duarte examines the health crisis resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic and the contemporary crisis of democracy.Reflecting on President Jair Bolsonaro's misgovernment of... -
Living with Ghosts: A Reader: Writings on Coloniality, Decoloniality, Hauntology and Contemporary Art by Kj Abudu
RRP: £34.00Booksplease Price: £23.55New and classic texts on Africa's unfulfilled project of decolonization Featuring republished texts by seminal theorists of the 20th and 21st centuries and newly commissioned essays by some of... -
Sovereign Bodies: Citizens, Migrants, and States in the Postcolonial World by Thomas Blom Hansen 9780691121192
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £41.689/11 and its aftermath have shown that our ideas about what constitutes sovereign power lag dangerously behind the burgeoning claims to rights and recognition within and across national boundaries... -
Writing the Noncolonial Self: Modern African Literatures and the Politics of Subjectivity Alexander Fyfe 9780813954943
RRP: £92.00Booksplease Price: £73.60How African literary forms imagine ways of living and being within coloniality Writing the Noncolonial Self suggests a new way of thinking about the connections between politics, subjectivity, and... -
Writing the Noncolonial Self: Modern African Literatures and the Politics of Subjectivity Alexander Fyfe 9780813954950
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.21How African literary forms imagine ways of living and being within coloniality Writing the Noncolonial Self suggests a new way of thinking about the connections between politics, subjectivity, and... -
Democratic Political Tragedy in the Postcolony: The Tragedy of Postcoloniality in Michael Manley's Jamaica and Nelson Mandela's South Africa by Greg A. Graham 9780367372767
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £48.18A ground-breaking work in Africana political thought that links the plight of progressive political endeavors in Africa with those in the Diaspora and beyond, Democratic Tragedy in the Postcolony... -
Forms of Mobility: Genre, Language, and Media in African Literary Cultures by Stephanie Bosch Santana 9780810147690
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.21Presents alternative categories of fiction through which to examine how contemporary writers have envisaged Africa's changing literary terrains Stephanie Bosch Santana analyzes southern African... -
Decolonial Marxism: Essays from the Pan-African Revolution by 9781839764110
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.24Early in life, Walter Rodney became a major revolutionary figure in a dizzying range of locales that traversed the breadth of the Black diaspora: in North America and Europe, in the Caribbean and on... -
African Philosophies Severine Kodjo-Grandvaux 9781509558445
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.05For many students of philosophy in the West, philosophy is understood as a discipline stemming from Ancient Greece, embracing the great thinkers of medieval and early modern Europe and continuing... -
African Philosophies Severine Kodjo-Grandvaux 9781509558452
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £17.03For many students of philosophy in the West, philosophy is understood as a discipline stemming from Ancient Greece, embracing the great thinkers of medieval and early modern Europe and continuing...